The dialectics of transformation in Africa

"In this new book, Elias Bongmba argues that the African crisis has resulted from abuses of political power, prodigal economic activities, and the proliferation of violence. Bongmba argues that African states must reform their economics, establish democratic rule, practice and governance, create a space for civil society, and institute a renaissance of politics and values in order to arrest socioeconomic decline and transform the continent. In the second half of The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa, Bongmba proposes humanistic interventions centered on the recovery of intersubjective relations and demonstrates how this could be worked out in the realignment of gender relations. He also presents a religious and theological critique of political power, and concludes by calling on Africans to embrace love as a political praxis."--Jacket.